James Geurts, assistant U.S. Navy secretary for research, development and acquisition, has said he intends to issue the 30-year plan for ship repair and modernization efforts in the spring of 2019 in an effort to help the maintenance sector plan its infrastructure and workforce investments, USNI News reported Tuesday.

Geurts said Tuesday the Naval Sea Systems Command will work on the report that would be released alongside the three-decade plan for shipbuilding efforts.

He noted that he expects the ship repair plan to “inform the industrial base” and take a look at the availability of capabilities and resources at repair yards and public shipyards.

Geurts cited that NAVSEA submitted to Congress an optimization plan for public shipyards to help shape the infrastructure improvement initiative in the next two decades.

“This is just trying to bring all that together so we can really look at what the demand is and then understand the infrastructure, people, budgeting, all that,” he added.

The Senate’s version of fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act includes language that would establish additional cross-functional teams to help the Defense Department address specific organizational challenges, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday.

The provision calls for the formation of CFTs that will focus on electronic warfare, security clearances and lethality of close-combat units.

A February 2018 report by the Government Accountability Office stated that DoD created only one CFT to help address the department’s backlog of security clearance applications, as required by the FY 2017 NDAA.

The upper chamber wants DoD to form a CFT consisting of representatives from different defense and military groups to develop EW methods.

Senators also urged the department to update business policies and procedures before it transfers background check investigation responsibilities to the Defense Security Service.

The bill would also order Defense Secretary James Mattis to designate an existing task force on close-combat lethality as a CFT.

The Senate-approved FY 2019 NDAA allocates $639 billion in defense base budget and $69 billion in additional war spending.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) has said the lower chamber’s fiscal 2019 defense policy bill would prevent the Defense Department from spending 50 percent of the appropriated funds for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract until DoD provides sufficient data on how it will oversee the acquisition process, Federal News Radio reported Monday.

“I really want to know that they have thought through not just this particular contract, but where cloud is going throughout the department,” Thornberry told reporters Thursday during a meeting in Washington.

“We are going to pay close attention to it not just because it’s a lot of money and because it’s a shift in the way they do business, but because cloud computing is going to be really important to the future of the military,” he added.

Thornberry added that he wants the Pentagon to invest in a cloud platform equipped with interoperable databases and that can be easily searched by auditors.

A report accompanying the House bill says the panel is concerned with the lack of data about security requirements, migration costs, customer capability requirements and other details behind the planned JEDI procurement from a single cloud service provider.